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→Early Visits and Missions (530-1900): 1787.
*1741 [[Divine Liturgy]] celebrated on a Russian ship off the coast of Alaska.
*1767 Community of Orthodox Greeks establishes itself in New Smyrna, Spanish Florida.
*1787 The US Constitution is drafted in Philadelphia, embodying the ideal of secular government with deliberate separation of "church and state" (First Amendment).
*1794 Missionaries, including [[Herman of Alaska]], arrive at Kodiak Island, bringing Orthodoxy to Russian Alaska.
*1796 Martyrdom of [[Juvenaly of Alaska]].